Tuesday 25 May 2010

The Crystal of Kings : BrezzaSoft Crystal System

A Korean only side scrolling hack 'n slash.


Picture courtesy of

Friday 21 May 2010

Rockman 2 : CPS2 Rental : Capcom 1996

ロックマン 2サパワーファイターズ

Nice yellow cased CPS2 game. The yellow case signifies that it's a rental release (Japanese in this instance). Game requires a yellow CPS2 A board to operate.

Pictures stolen from ebay. >_<


Game Flyer

RayStorm : Taito FX-1B : Taito 1996

レイストーム : RayStorm

Another FX-1B Game. The hardware consists of a ZN1 Motherboard and a ZROM Daughter board.

Flyer

PCB. Pretty much identical hardware to the G Darius PCB

http://ikotsu.blogspot.com/2009/12/g-darius-g-taito-fx1-flyer.html

Pictures stolen from ebay. >_<

  

Thursday 20 May 2010

Pang! 3 : Capcom CPS : Capcom 1995

バスターバーデイーズ : パング!3 : PANG! 3

The middle layer of this CPS board is slightly larger than the bottom layer. Looks like somebody fucked up here. ^_^


CPS Dash sticker on the Motherboard.

The PCB below appears to be the Mitchell Corp variant. Whilst still running on a CPS motherboard.


Instruction Manual

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Radiant Silvergun : SEGA STV : Treasure 1998

レイディアント シルバーガン

A few images of the STV cartridge








Artwork and manual


More Cave SH-3

Spot the difference. ;)

Mushihimesama Futari Ver 1.5 虫姫さまふたり1.5

DeathSmiles デススマイルズ

EspGaluda II エスプガルーダII

Muchi Muchi Pork! むちむちポーク!


DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu
怒首領蜂 大復活

The latest revision of the SH-3 board appears to be missing the battery.

Kit pieces.


Akai Katana 赤い刀 - アカイカタナ PCB and kit pieces. (pics courtesy of SuperPang @ ArcadeOtaku)


Mushihimesama 虫姫さま. This was an early SH-3 board. Notice the gold JAMMA connector and serial port. ^_^


Tuesday 11 May 2010

Great 1000 Miles Rally : Kaneko 1994

グレート1000マイルスラリー : Great 1000 miles Rally

Flyer

Instruction stickers



 Various images of the PCB.

The PCB consists of three layers

Top layer.

Sketchy capacitor across two of the ICs
Sound amp and volume control
Middle layer


Dip switches
Bottom layer, steering wheel I/O

DIP Switch settings
_____________________________________________________________
|Great 1000 Miles Rally      | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Game Type     |Game Mode    |Off|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|              |Test Mode    |On |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Screen flip   |Normal       |---|Off|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|              |Reverse      |---|On |---|---|---|---|---|---|
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Cabinet Type  |Upright      |---|---|Off|---|---|---|---|---|
|              |Cocktail     |---|---|On |---|---|---|---|---|
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Steering wheel|Not Present  |---|---|---|Off|---|---|---|---|
|              |Present      |---|---|---|On |---|---|---|---|
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Controller    |1p side      |---|---|---|Off|Off|---|---|---|
|              |1p & 2p sides|---|---|---|Off|On |---|---|---|
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Steering wheel| 360 type    |---|---|---|On |Off|---|---|---|
|              | 270 type    |---|---|---|On |On |---|---|---|
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Brake Button  |A = Brake    |---|---|---|---|---|Off|---|---|
|              |Brake Unused |---|---|---|---|---|On |---|---|
|--------------|-------------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Locale        |Use Memory   |---|---|---|---|---|---|Off|Off|
|              |+Anth -Flags |---|---|---|---|---|---|On |Off|
|              |+Anth +Flags |---|---|---|---|---|---|Off|On |
|              |Neither Used |---|---|---|---|---|---|On |On |
|------------------------------------------------------------|

Japanese/English DIP switch chart

Some more information here

http://spritesmind.net/_AHD/index.php?page=gtmr